Step still to come (one reading among others)

As in the Days of Noah — Ordinary Life Until the Coming (Matt 24:37-39)

**Artist’s impression** "The Deluge," oil painting by Francis Danby, 1840 (London, inventory no. N06134). It shows the flood of Gen 7, to which Jesus compares "the days of Noah" (Matt 24:37-39); it does not depict ordinary life before the flood; Artist's impression. — Francis Danby, Wikimedia Commons · Domaine public

? Not yet happened, no date

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In short

The announcement. Jesus, in the Gospel of Matthew, around AD 30, compares his return to the days before the flood: people lived normally, ate, drank, married, "and they suspected nothing."

What happened. In Matthew, this ordinary life goes on until his coming, without the text saying for how long beforehand. Already fulfilled, in progress, or still to come? Readings differ: it is for you to judge.

What is still debated. What remains debated is how such an ordinary life fits with the great, unequaled distress announced earlier in the same discourse.

Main objection (in French for now)

Une lecture minoritaire voit dans « les jours de Noé » les unions de Gn 6 (Néphilim) et y rattache la génétique ou le transhumanisme ; le texte de Mt 24:38 ne parle que de manger, boire et se marier, c’est-à-dire de la vie ordinaire.

The text (World English Bible)

As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and they didn’t know until the flood came and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Matt 24:37-39